After more than a year in development we're thrilled to be able to finally say that, RapidWeaver 7.0 is here. Thanks to everyone for their support during the beta program and all our loyal RapidWeaver users around the world.

FTP Path Browser: You can now visually browse your FTP server to pick a location to publish too!

Built-in Web Server: Allows you to preview your entire site locally in a browser without having to export it

SEO Health Check: RapidWeaver will analyse your site and will highlight steps you can take to improve SEO.

Banner Images: In themes that support this new feature, you can now add a custom banner image to your site, and customise it on each page. Themes that support this feature also include optimal image dimensions to help you size images.

4 Responsive New Themes: Designed by Realmac, Elixir Graphics, MultiThemes, and Yuzool!

New, modern OS X sidebar: with translucency, that shows all your pages, resources and settings in one location.

Portable Documents: You can now choose to store resources inside your RapidWeaver document, enabling you to take the project between multiple Macs.

Multiple Publishing Locations: If you need to publish projects to multiple locations, you can set these up in your project, and choose the server when publishing. RapidWeaver’s smart publishing will also keep track of changes across multiple publishing locations.

Local Publishing: The “Export” feature is something we’ve always felt should be considered a way of publishing your site, and now it is!

Project Backup: RapidWeaver can optionally create a ZIP file of your project, and upload it to your server when publishing. The file is added to a “secret” location on your server, meaning that while it is downloadable by anyone who knows the cryptic web address, it’s tricky to guess that web address.

User-selectable Add-ons Folder: need to save your add-ons in a custom location? RapidWeaver 7 allows you to do this, and will move your add-ons for you! Great if you’re working between machines.

Minified Javascript and CSS: RapidWeaver can now optimise your CSS and Javascript by minifying it. Previously, RapidWeaver would remove some whitespace, but this time we’re actually optimising it to be as quick to download and apply to your pages as possible.

Enhancements

Reorder-able Sidebar: you can now re-arrange the Pages, Resources, and Settings groups in the sidebar, and collapse the ones you don’t need.

RapidWeaver’s media browser now supports other, non-Apple, apps including Lightroom, and custom folders from the Finder.

Multiple Selection in the Page List: Use Cmd + A to select all of the sidebar group you’re currently viewing. Cmd + Shift + A to select the entire sidebar. You can Duplicate, re-order, and Delete multiple items.

New “Hide Classic Themes” preference: This new option allows you to hide the older, built-in themes. If you open a project that uses one of these themes, it will be shown in the Theme Browser while the project is open.

Photo Album: now adds an image caption as the “Alt” tag in individual photo pages.

New SEO Tab in Page Inspector: Meta tags are now shown in their own tab in the Page Inspector.

Support for Customisable Meta tags

Easy to use Robot Meta tags, you no longer need to remember the syntax!

Added an option to update custom theme styles with the current settings.

Greatly improved third party plugin installation, for example, RapidWeaver no longer moves plugins, it copies them over.

Option to Opt-In to Beta Updates: If you’re feeling adventurous, and want to see new RapidWeaver features before anyone else, you can opt-in to receive beta updates to RapidWeaver.

Site-wide Code: To allow you to better-edit large amounts of site-wide code, RapidWeaver now displays it in tabs, instead of consecutive text fields.

New Body Site-wide Code: The “GoSquared” and “Google Analytics” fields have been merged into sitewide code. “Google Analytics” content is now placed in the Head tab, with a new “Body” tab now available for use. RapidWeaver 7 will migrate your existing code from RapidWeaver 6 into this field when generating a RapidWeaver 7 project file.

Adds a new preference to disable the generation of Quick Look previews.

RapidWeaver Addons Manager now displays the version of themes, plugins and stacks.

Improved HTML output for links (RapidWeaver now only includes the rel= attribute when a link is intended to be opened in a new window).

The Replace Page feature, allowing you to change a page’s plugin type, makes a welcome return!

Improvements in how RapidWeaver determines whether to publish a page. If you mark a page as changed, RapidWeaver will re-publish that page irrespective of whether Smart Publishing believes the page is unchanged.

Fixes a problem where the Theme Browser wouldn’t immediately show your currently-selected theme when opening the Theme Browser.

Fixes a problem where a malformed Theme Style could potentially cause RapidWeaver to crash.

Fixes a problem where the QuickTime plugin could cause RapidWeaver to crash.

Fixes a problem where returning to a particular scroll location in Preview mode could cause RapidWeaver to quit.

Fixes a problem with RapidWeaver’s syntax highlighting that, when the app was modified or OS X’s Decompression utility failed to unzip the app properly, could cause RapidWeaver to crash.

Fixes a problem with syntax highlighting where a missing font could cause RapidWeaver to crash.

Fixes a problem where RapidWeaver may behave erratically when your previously-selected Default Theme’s name changes.

Fixes a problem where RapidWeaver would only export the top-level menu on subpages (e.g. on blog permalink pages).

Improvements to how RapidWeaver reports the inability to open exported PHP pages in an external browser. (Due to changes in OS X, it’s no longer possible to invoke a preview of exported PHP pages in an external browser).

RapidWeaver 6.2 is a major (free!) update to RapidWeaver 6, with a huge number of fixes and improvements. We’ve been carefully tuning RapidWeaver to make it even faster, in some cases up to 50% faster when previewing pages and navigating your project.

A significant number of optimisations to make navigating your project, previewing pages and making theme changes quicker. In our testing, RapidWeaver 6.2 is up to twice as fast as previous versions.

Fixes a problem that caused the site name instead of the project file name to appear at the top of the project window.

Fixes a problem where a third-party plugin update could cause RapidWeaver to crash.

Fixes a problem where RapidWeaver would ungracefully handle ASCII characters in site names.

Fixes a problem where changes to a page’s Metatags would not be saved if you closed the editor whilst still editing.

Fixes a problem where an accessibility label in the Snippets window would appear on top of the Add Snippet button.

Fixes a problem where RapidWeaver could crash when generating a page using PHP.

Fixes a problem where RapidWeaver would crash when tidying up temporary files.

Performance improvements when handling Theme Variations - RapidWeaver now caches theme variations, instead of loading them each time the Variations area appears.

Fixes a problem where an empty Theme Style file could cause RapidWeaver to crash.

Fixes a problem where Theme Variations may reset after creating a custom Theme Style.

Optimised images in all built-in themes. On average, we’ve made the images 20% smaller, meaning your site will load even quicker!

Fixes a problem where Theme Variation colours would not correctly refresh.

Fixes a problem where, after publishing, the “Changed” flag on a Resource would not be correctly cleared until the Resource was clicked on.

Fixes a problem that caused password changes to not be recognised by the Publishing window.

Fixes a problem that prevented Public Key authentication being fully enabled in the Bookmarks Manager.

Fixes a problem where multiple FTP bookmarks with the same name wouldn’t be shown in RapidWeaver.

Fixes a problem where a missing file on the File Sharing page could cause RapidWeaver to crash.

Fixes problems with the Photo Album where the Slideshow would not start, and in some cases not load images.